Macau report sheds no light for dark times

The government sponsored, university conducted interim review of Macau’s casino liberalization says gaming expansion has been positive for Macau. But the report offers no help or hope regarding the current downturn, and few clues about what will happen when licenses expire, starting in 2020.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes, editor at large for Inside Asian Gaming and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.

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